ABSTRACT
Agricultural geography also played a leading role in disciplinary development in the early 1950s when the attempt to define multi-attribute agricultural regions was linked to statistical methods, initially by Weaver (as described in Chapter 1). This formed part of attempts to expand the use of statistical methods in geography. The focus of this work was upon regional changes in farm inputs, farm-size structures, farm incomes and agricultural marketing. Subsequently, work in agricultural geography, like many systematic specialisms in the discipline, became characterised by the use of
This chapter focuses on how the content of agricultural geography has evolved post-1945, thereby providing a context for the more extended consideration of key components of agricultural change in the rest of the book. Emphasis is placed upon how there has been a move from a ‘traditional’ form of agricultural geography to new approaches embracing different ideas from across the social sciences.
